According to a study by professors at Emory University, the Steelers have the second-most unstable fan base in the NFL based on the ratio of negative to positive "tweets" on Twitter for a period of three days after a loss. Only the Raiders had more unstable fans.

This study dovetails wonderfully with all the crybaby [inappropriate/removed] I've seen from Steeler fans since the beginning of 2012. Somebody earlier today talked about how annoying all the know-it-all armchair coaches/GMs are in our fan base, and they're correct. There's now empirical evidence of their existence in numbers far too large.

To me that's a very short sighted way of determining how unstable a fan base is. Thats selecting a certain group of people(twitter users) and certain time frame to determine overall results.

For instance, last year Indy fans had a major upgrade to the previous year, coupled by excitement from their new Qbs and were also motivated by a sick coach with a team rallying for him. I couldn't imagine why they would have had more positive tweet...

Ok Guys, Let's all make positive tweets from here on out! Then we can be the most "stable" fanbase! Yay!
What one calls unstable another may call passionate. And Cowboys at 32 is a joke._________________

Ok Guys, Let's all make positive tweets from here on out! Then we can be the most "stable" fanbase! Yay! What one calls unstable another may call passionate. And Cowboys at 32 is a joke.

This.

Twitter itself is one big joke if you ask me. People, including players, say more garbage on their then anything. Cowboys fans the most stable? Yeah..OKAY!!.. Give me a fkn' break. Oakland, yep, I can buy that as the #1 most unstable although I STILL think that's inaccurate, I just think they're one of the more passionate fanbases.

This is such a small dose of analysis that it's almost based on nothing at all._________________

Nothing to get worked up about. It is a study by marketing people that just use fans that post on twitter. Talk about a small subset of the overall fan base. Then they make generalizations about the entire fan base. Any statistician would have a field day with the holes in their data._________________
"You build with draft choices. You find people with talents adaptable to your plans and then you teach them to do things the way we do them." - Chuck Noll

Nothing to get worked up about. It is a study by marketing people that just use fans that post on twitter. Talk about a small subset of the overall fan base. Then they make generalizations about the entire fan base. Any statistician would have a field day with the holes in their data.

This is another point. You don't go on twitter to say nothing. Either your gonna have a positive remark or a negative remark. You don't tweet..."I really feel nothing about this game". Duh_________________

While this is hardly the most reliable study, I'm just going to see the humor in it. Steelers fans tend to have ridiculous standards, as does the spoiled Pats fanbase. For Steelers fans, this is especially true with the defense. They are expected to be dominant every year, and if they allow 20 points in a game the world is ending and everyone needs to be fired.